doing bad things in the name of God, or weaponizing God-rhetoric to justify their causes. When Rashid writes thatJesus Takes a Side, he doesn’t mean that Jesus is a Republican or a Democrat, he means that the political emphasis of Jesus is on the side of the oppressed no matter ...
Why? Often it’s for the memories that we have cherished our whole life, finding hard to relinquish, having not yet tasted the other side, and thus we weep. The more I read about the saints in the Bible, especially those who lived a very long time, (for example, Enoch living 365 ...
but the myth that the whole upload is done is a flash and the reboot takes no time at all is an old-software lie. The upload takes years. Installing the new software may take a lifetime. The reboot almost invariably results in a whopping psychosis. It literally requires the old software...
The earliest Christian traditions tended to foster these ideas, emphasizing them to varying degree, but seeing in Jesus both the sacrificial lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and the suffering servant. Much has been made of the fact that Jesus did not die a natural death ...
Even if one takes these scenes as literal historical accounts, they do not add up to anintegratedportrait of Mary. Only in the narratives of theNativityand the Passion of Christ is her place a significant one: her acceptance of the privilege conferred on her in the Annunciation is the solemn...
a royal robe and twisted a crown of thorns on his head. He was despised and the people pulled a mutiny and sought to unseat Jesus. They marched him to a hill outside the city and hung him on a criminal’s cross. They slapped a little sign above his head that read, “Here hangs ...
“Frightened” and “terrified”–it takes two words to describe this unearthly experience. Not only that, but they got real freaky, after all, He had to be a ghost! I can only imagine their fear at that moment. I think everyone present bolted to the door. But wait for a second!
The meal takes place within an almostaustereroom so that the viewer focuses on the action taking place in the foreground. Dark tapestries line the walls on either side, while the back wall is dominated by three windows that look out on an undulating landscape recalling Milan’s countryside. Le...
The one who takes refuge in him is truly happy! 9You who are theLORD’s holy ones, honor him, because those who honor him don’t lack a thing. 10Even strong young lions go without and get hungry, but those who seek theLORDlack no good thing. ...
Peter is saying here that the day of the Lord–that time when God and His Christ, His Son, takes over this fallen planet—will begin like a thief in the night. It will be a sudden, catastrophic break-in upon a world doing business as usual. (Read Luke 17:26-29 to understand how ...